Grosvenor Prints

John Stacpoolee Esq:r of Cragbrien Castle in the County of Clare [...]
Barrett pinx.t / James Watson fecit.
[1771 or after]
Very rare mezzotint, platemark 430 x 280mm (17 x 11"). Small margins.
Memorial portrait of John Stacpoole (c.1674-1771) issued following his death. Text paying tribute to his philanthropy, which went alongside his acquiring 'one of the Largest and best Circumstanced Estates in Ireland'. Engraved by James Watson after the Irish portrait painter Jeremiah Barrett (c.1723-70). Watson also engraved a portrait of Richard Stacpoole which states that the 'Stacpooles of the County of Clare' such as John Stacpoole are descended from him. Both appear to have been issued as private plates for the Stacpoole family and their acquaintances.
Whitman 84; CS 133; for Watson's portrait of Richard Stacpoole see ref. 37928. Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37928] £450.00

Sir Richard Stacpoole of Pembrokeshire. Who was knighted by William the Conqueror. The different Welch Historians & the old Records of that Principality mention him amoung the most respectable Men in the Year one thousand & ninety one, being the fourth Year of the Reign of King William Rufus. He married Margaret, second Sister of Sir Richard Turbervile Lord of Coyty, and died without Issue. Robert the only Brother of Sir Richard Stacpoole, married a Daughter of Sir John Sitsylt or Cecill, Ancestor to Sir William Cecil Lord Burghley, & Lord High Treasurer of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Sir William Stacpoole his eldest Son married a Daughter of Howel ap Ithel, Lord of Roos & Ryuonioc, now Denbighland. Said Sir William had a Command in an army raised in the Reign of King Stephen, against David King of Scots, but died young, leaving three Sons & one Daughter. His eldest Son Sir Richard Stacpoole of Stacpoole in the County of Pembroke, married a Daughter of Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon in the Peke. No mention is made of the second Son, but Robert the youngest encouraged by his Cousin Robert Fitz Stephen, went over to Ireland with Richard Earl of Strigule known by the Name of Strongbow, & was a Captain of Archers in that Division of the Army which Fitz Stephen commanded under Strongbow, in the Year eleven hundred & sixty eight, being the fourteenth Year of King Henry the second. Said Robert afterwards settled in Ireland & from him the Stacpooles of the County of Clare are descended. The old Mansion of Stacpoole Court, & a large Estate in Pembrokeshire descended to a Grand-daughter of the second Sir Richd. Stacpoole, & is now the Property of the Son of the late Pryse Campbell Esq. who was Member for that County.
Segulta pinxt. from a Profile on a Monu.t. James Watson fecit.
[n.d. c.1780].
Mezzotint, platemark 435 x 280mm (17 x 11"). Small margins. Slight damage (three repaired tears extending inside platemark).
Rare and unusual portrait of a Pembrokeshire knight from the time of William the Conqueror, with extensive biographical text. Issued as a private plate. Engraved by the well-known mezzotint engraver James Watson, after 'Segulta', who is unknown and may be a misspelling of another artist's name.
CS: 134 (only state); Goodwin 164: Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. For Watson's portrait of Stacpoole's descendant John Stacpoole see ref 37928.
[Ref: 37927] £380.00

The Honourable Lady Stanhope.
Reynolds pinx.t. Watson fecit.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer at the Kings Arms in Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 620 x 380mm (24½ x 15"). Laid on old French mount board, small margins.
Anne Hussey (Delaval), Lady Stanhope (died 1811), Wife of Sir William Stanhope.
CS 135, ii of ii; Goodwin 53 iii of iv.
[Ref: 52976] £490.00

[Elizabeth Stanhope] Contemplation.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Car.e Watson. Engraver to her Majesty.
Publish'd Jan. 1st. 1790, by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall London.
Stipple and mezzotint. 355 x 290mm (14 x 7½"), with large margins. Uncut.
Portrait of Elizabeth Stanhope, daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, and wife of William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington.
Hamilton: Pg 135 III of IV.
[Ref: 52000] £380.00

[Elizabeth Stanhope.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by Car.e Watson. Engraver to Her Majesty.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Stipple with mezzotint; mixed method. Proof before title. 324 x 272mm. 12¾ x 10¾". Slight damage in title area lower right trimmed to plate mark.
Elizabeth Falconer (fl.1782), wife to Henry Fitzroy Stanhope,.
Hamilton: p.135, ii/iv.
[Ref: 24736] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[A Marsh Road]
Charles J Watson [in image and in pencil].
1919.
Trial proof etching signed by the artist, 150 x 200mm (6 x 8"). Some time staining in large margins.
Road at Stokesby on the bank of a canal, with old trees and thatched buildings at left and two cattle at centre; distant view of Aclebridge. Charles John Watson (1846 - 1927). Born in Norwich, Watson was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and chief Founder and first President of the Norwich Art Circle. After leaving Norwich to move to London in 1888, he exhibited successfully at Robert Dunthorne's Gallery in Vigo Street.
Watson 1931: 197.
[Ref: 62608] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[A Storm with Lightening.]
H.Kobell P. Thomas Watson S.
Publish'd as the Act Directs Feb.y 7, 1771 for S. Hooper
Mezzotint, Sheet 455 x 555mm. Trimmed within plate, top edge chipped.
Two sailing ships on a storm-riven sea, the nearer seen from its stern as lightning strikes from a gap between the clouds in upper l, breaking the main-mast, two dolphins leaping to right, towards a plank of driftwood, and a fort on the cliffs to l; after Kobell; S. Hooper published state. 1771, this state published 1783.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3631] £350.00

The Strawberry Girl.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Tho.s Watson.
Publish'd Nov 1st 1774 for W.Shropshire, No. 158 & T.Watson, No 142, New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), very large margins.
Possibly Theophilia Palmer, niece of Reynolds known as 'Offie'.
Goodwin, 52, iii of iv. CS 43, ii of iii.
[Ref: 61380] £370.00

Miss Anna Swan.
W.m Thompson Pinx.t. J.Watson Fecit.
London Printed for Henry Parker opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 250 x 355mm.
Half-length portrait. The second state of two, with the original dark background reworked to show a tree and fluted column.
CS: Watson 139.
[Ref: 6122] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Thais.
Painted by F. Wheatley. Engrav'd by Tho.s Watson.
London, publish'd March 10th, 1779, by Watson & Dickinson No. 158 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint with small margins. Platemark: 255 x 195mm. (10 x 7¾").
Thais, a prostitute of Athens; fictional character from the 'Eunuchus' by Terence. 'A subject which appealed equally to the moral and to the dissolute' (Webster). One of two mezzotints for which Francis Wheatley produced designs before his Irish period, the other being 'Sidgismonda'. Said to be a portrait of Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton (see British Museum cataloguing ref: AN902405001), although she did not come to London until the early 1780s.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. Webster: E9; Goodwin II of II. For 'Sidgismonda', see ref. 28424.
[Ref: 28425] £330.00

Three Young Gums. 47/50 [in pencil.]
E.S. Watson 29 [scratched in plate.] ['E.S. Watson' signed in pencil.]
[Queensland, 1929.]
Etching, edition limited to 50, 158 x 113mm. Glued to paper mount at top edge.
View in the Australian bush, with three gum trees, or Eucalyptus, to the fore.
[Ref: 7653] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Mary Tighe.]
Comerford after Romney pinx.t Caroline Watson Engraver to her Majesty sculp.t
Published as the act directs May 10. 1811, by Longman & Co: Paternoster Row.
Stipple. 292 x 217mm. 11½ x 8½".
Mary Tighe (1772-1810) was an Anglo-Irish poet. In 1805 she published 'Psyche', a six-canto allegorical poem in Spenserian stanzas, which was admired by many and praised by Thomas Moore. She suffered a serious attack of tuberculosis in 1805 and survived another five years.
Ex Collection: Earl of Bute.
[Ref: 24360] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Trimmer.
C. Read pinx.t. J. Watson.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engravers & Printsellers, at the King's Arms in Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 515 x 355mm (20½ x 14"). Rust marks from stretcher nails in left margin, repaired tear in inscription area. Some damage.
A young girl holding a cat. Although the DNB calls this a portrait of Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), evangelist and children's writer, the NPG notes that it ''is in fact one of Mrs Trimmer's six daughters'', one of whom was Selina (1764-1829), who became governess to the family of the Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
[Ref: 59674] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Frances Countess of Jersey.]
D. Gardner Pinx.t. Tho.s Watson fecit.
Publish'd Feb.y 14.th 1774, for W. Shropshire, No. 158, & T. Watson, No. 142, New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Surface scratch, small margins, tipped onto album sheet.
A portrait of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (1753-1821) who was the mistress of George IV while Prince of Wales.
[Ref: 47259] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Viola. [She never told her Love, / But let Concealment, like a Worm i'th'Bud / Feed on her Damask Cheek: / Shakespear's Twelfth Night.] From the Miniature in the Collection of Nathaniel Chauncy Esq.r.
Painted by S. Shelley & Engrav'd by Caroline Watson. Engraver to her Majesty.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Oct. 1 1788 by Caroline Watson Fitzroy Street.
Stipple, state before before quotation. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"), with wide margins.
Viola from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night', engraved and published by Caroline Watson (c.1760-1814), one of the most significant and prolific female printmakers of her day.
[Ref: 53329] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Musical Boy] [Done from the Original Picture of the same size, in the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Mountstuart.]
F. Hals Pinxit / James Watson Sculpsit
Publish'd July 24th 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, platemark 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Good impression; very rare;
Boy playing the violin; fruit, knife and flask on table in front, two listeners behind with lute hanging on wall. From a picture attributed here to Frans Hals but probably since reattributed.
Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Goodwin 182 i/ii; CS 159 i/ii.
[Ref: 34016] £360.00

A Visit to the Camp.
W. H. Bunbury delin. Watson & Dickinson Excud.t.
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No 53 Fleet Street, London.
Stipple. Sheet 295 x 355mm (11½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, losing most of publication line, slight surface scuff in sky.
Two soldiers showing a party of civilians around their encampment.
BM Satires 4765.
[Ref: 36055] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[William Wallace.]
[n.d., c.1775.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters, sheet 355 x 250mm. 14 x 9¾". Trimmed to plate. Tatty and chipped extremities.
Sir William Wallace (1272?-1305), Scottish patriot and hero of romance. Engraved by Thomas Watson (1743 - 1781), after an unknown artist.
NPG: D18738. Chaloner Smith: 36, undescribed state.
[Ref: 10015] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Sir William Wallace.
[n.d., c.1775.]
Mezzotint, proof before artist, sheet 355 x 250mm. 14 x 9¾". Repaired crack in platemark in right edge.
Sir William Wallace (1272?-1305), Scottish patriot and hero of romance. Engraved by Thomas Watson (1743 - 1781), after an unknown artist.
Chaloner Smith: 36, undescribed state.
[Ref: 39856] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Charlotte Walpole] Nancy.
H.Bunbury Delint. Watson & Dickinson Excudt.
London, Publish'd Jany. 22d. 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158, New Bond Street.
Stipple and etching, printed in brown ink. Sheet: 205 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate.
The actress Charlotte Walpole (c.1758 - 1836) dressed as a sentry at Cox Heath as Nancy in Sheridan's 'The Camp'; she stands on a hill above the military camp at left which she points towards, a cabin with letters 'CW' on the side and smoking chimney behind. The orignal title of the print was 'Miss Walpole'; it is the third in a series with 'A Visit to the Camp' and 'The Recruits' (see BM Satires 4765-66). 'The Camp' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan was first produced at Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 15 October 1778 and was frequently performed 1778-80. The production concluded with 'a perspective Representation of the Grand Camp at Cox-Heath, from a View taken by De Loutherbourg and executed under his direction' (quoted in The London Stage, part 5, ed. C. B. Hogan, Carbondale, Illinois, 1968, I, p. 208). After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM: 5803.
[Ref: 39803] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Walpole 3
H.Bunbury Delint. Watson & Dickinson Excudt.
London, Publish'd Jany. 22d. 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158, New Bond Street.
Stipple and etching, printed in brown ink, sheet 245 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
Actress Charlotte Walpole (c.1758 - 1836) dressed as a sentry at Cox Heath as Nancy in Sheridan's 'The Camp'; she stands on a hill above the military camp at left which she points towards, a cabin with letters 'CW' on the side and smoking chimney behind. The print was issued in series with 'A Visit to the Camp' and 'The Recruits' (see BM Satires 4765-66). 'The Camp' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan was first produced at Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 15 October 1778 and was frequently performed 1778-80. The production concluded with 'a perspective Representation of the Grand Camp at Cox-Heath, from a View taken by De Loutherbourg and executed under his direction' (quoted in The London Stage, part 5, ed. C. B. Hogan, Carbondale, Illinois, 1968, I, p. 208). After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
For later impression with altered title see ref. 39803 & 43939.
[Ref: 43940] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Charlotte Walpole] Nancy. 3.
H.Bunbury Delint. Watson & Dickinson Excudt.
London, Publish'd Jany. 22d. 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158, New Bond Street, & No. 33, Strand.
Stipple and etching, printed in brown ink. Sheet: 250 x 205mm (9¾ x 8"). Trimmed within plate;
Actress Charlotte Walpole (c.1758 - 1836) dressed as a sentry at Cox Heath as Nancy in Sheridan's 'The Camp'; she stands on a hill above the military camp at left which she points towards, a cabin with letters 'CW' on the side and smoking chimney behind. The original title of the print was 'Miss Walpole'; it is the third in a series with 'A Visit to the Camp' and 'The Recruits' (see BM Satires 4765-66). 'The Camp' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan was first produced at Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 15 October 1778 and was frequently performed 1778-80. The production concluded with 'a perspective Representation of the Grand Camp at Cox-Heath, from a View taken by De Loutherbourg and executed under his direction' (quoted in The London Stage, part 5, ed. C. B. Hogan, Carbondale, Illinois, 1968, I, p. 208). After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
For impression with different publication line see ref. 39803 & 43940.
[Ref: 43939] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford. Prime Minister to King George the First, & King George the Second. In the Blue Damask Bed Chamber at Houghton.
Vanloo Pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit.
Published Jan.y 1.st 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No.90, Cheapside London.
Very fine mezzotint. Plate 502 x 349mm (19¾ x 13¾").
A full length portrait of Robert Walpole (1676-1745) who dominated Parliament as de facto Prime Minister between 1721 and 1742. This portrait was published as frontispiece to Volume II of Boydell's series of prints of Walpole's art collection at Houghton, engraved after the collection was sold by the 3rd Earl in 1779, including 206 sold to Catherine the Great of Russia to decorate her Hermitage palace.
NPG: D39367. Goodwin: 131. CS: 149.
[Ref: 27338] £480.00

Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford. Prime Minister to King George the First, & King George the Second. In the Blue Damask Bed Chamber at Houghton.
Vanloo Pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit.
Published Jan.y 1.st 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No.90, Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. Framed. Plate: 505 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"). Frame: 700 x 540mm (27½ x 21¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A full length portrait of Robert Walpole (1676-1745) who dominated Parliament as de facto Prime Minister between 1721 and 1742. This portrait was published as frontispiece to Volume II of Boydell's series of prints of Walpole's art collection at Houghton, engraved after the collection was sold by the 3rd Earl in 1779, including 206 sold to Catherine the Great of Russia to decorate her Hermitage palace.
CS: 149
[Ref: 46975] £450.00

[St. Etienne du Mont, Paris. Interior.]
Charles J. Watson 1906
Etching, 205 x 230mm. (8 x 9"). Outside of frame 530 x 440mm (21 x 17¼"). Pencil signature bottom left. Unexamined out of frame.
Atmospheric view of the spiralling staircases of the famous church of St.-Etienne-du-Mont in Paris. The church contains the shrine of St. Geneviève, patron saint of Paris, and contains the tombs of Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine. Jean-Paul Marat is buried in the church's cemetery. Etched by Charles John Watson (1846-1927). Born in Norwich, Watson was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and chief Founder and first President of the Norwich Art Circle. After leaving Norwich to move to London in 1888, he exhibited successfully at Robert Dunthorne's Gallery in Vigo Street.
'Catalogue of the Etched and Engraved work of Charles J. Watson, R.E.' cat. 159. For this reference book see ref. 10362. For other material relating to Watson' exhibitions at Robert Dunthorne's galler
[Ref: 18220] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Reverend George Whitefield,
John Russell Pinx.t 1768. W. Faden excudit. Ja.s Watson fecit.
Published by James Wyld 5 Charing Cross. [n.d. c.1823.]
Very scarce mezzotint. Sheet 500 x 330mm (19¾ x 13"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, extra margin added at top. Damaged. Repairs top right.
Full length portrait of George Whitefield (1714-70) preaching in a field with St Paul's on the sky-line to right. James Wyld was apprenticed to William Faden in 1804, taking over his business in 1823. He left his premises at 5 Charing Cross in 1832.
CS: 154, iv/iv; Godwin 90, iv/iv.
[Ref: 60798] £380.00

[Lady Whitmore, From the Original Picture in His Majesty's Collection at Windsor.]
Painted by Sir Peter Lely. Engrav'd by Thomas Watson.
Publish'd Jan.y 1.st 1778, for T. Watson, No.142., & W: Shropshire, No.158, New Bond-Street, London.
Mezzotint, platemark 457 x 330mm (18 x 13"), with very large margins. Crease lower left. Good impression.
Lady Frances Whitmore (c.1643-1690), daughter of Sir William Brooke and wife of Sir Thomas Whitmore. From a set of prints after a series of paintings by Sir Peter Lely of women at the court of Charles II, known as 'The Beauties of Windsor'. The portraits were commissioned by Anne Hyde, first wife of James II (then Duke of York).
Goodwin: 34; CS 5 ii/iii;
[Ref: 43746] £320.00

[Lady Whitmore, From the Original Picture in His Majesty's Collection at Windsor.]
Painted by Sir Peter Lely. Engrav'd by Thomas Watson.
Publish'd Jan.y 1.st 1778, for T. Watson, No.142., & W: Shropshire, No.158, New Bond-Street, London.
Mezzotint. 455 x 330mm (18 x 13"). Thread margins. Slight loss in margin bottom left.
Lady Frances Whitmore (c.1643-1690), daughter of Sir William Brooke and wife of Sir Thomas Whitmore. From a set of prints after a series of paintings by Sir Peter Lely of women at the court of Charles II, known as 'The Beauties of Windsor'. The portraits were commissioned by Anne Hyde, first wife of James II (then Duke of York).
Goodwin: 34; CS 5 ii/iii.
[Ref: 46988] £320.00

John Wilkes Esq.r.
Engraved by Caroline Watson after a Picture by Pine about the Year 1763.
[n.d, c.1804.]
Stipple. Sheet: 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of English radical, journalist and politician John Wilkes (1725-1797).
[Ref: 46327] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Harry Woodward]
[James Watson after Sir Joshua Reynolds, c.1770]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters; platemark 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to platemark; crease; collector's stamp of Alfred Morrison (1821-97) verso. Thread margins.
Harry Woodward (1714-77), actor and pantomimist who opened the Crow-street Theatre in Dublin in 1758, but after the venture failed enjoyed a successful career in London. Mezzotint after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. This impression formerly owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), autograph and art collector, some of whose prints are now in the collections of the British Museum and the Fondation Custodia, Paris,
CS 156; Goodwin 6; Hamilton p.73; L.151
[Ref: 46856] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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